Brisket, pork ribs, sausage, potato salad at The Greatest BBQ, Missouri City

Owners Janice and Wayne Edwards at The Greatest BBQ, Missouri City

Mustard greens, yams and mac and cheese at The Greatest BBQ, Missouri City

Full spread at The Greatest BBQ, Missouri City

Mac and cheese at The Greatest BBQ, Missouri City

Yams at The Greatest BBQ, Missouri City

It takes a certain amount of bravado to cook and sell Texas barbecue.

For generations, the Lone Star State has cultivated a mythology in which everything is bigger, better and bolder – and nowhere is that more true than in our smoked-meat traditions.

So, I’m always fascinated when I visit Missouri City and I drive by a small barbecue joint slotted in a shopping center that’s named “The Greatest BBQ.”

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